CALL FOR PAPERS

Medical and HealthCare Applications of Evolutionary Computation

CEC 2017 Special Session
Donostia - San Sebasti√°n, Spain
June 5-8, 2017


SCOPE

Evolutionary Computation methods are being more and more frequently used 
to face challenging problems in Medicine and HealthCare.

These methods can be of great help in finding good solutions to many 
practical medical and healthcare applications, as for example in tasks 
as disease screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, prognosis, imaging, 
signal processing, health care management and any other task related to 
machine learning, knowledge discovery, decision support, regression, 
forecasting, optimization, feature selection and data mining.

The Special Session aims to bring together international experts in 
evolutionary computation for the exchange of ideas across disciplines 
encouraging multidisciplinary research collaborations and the 
development of new concepts in the important and growing domain of 
Medical and HealthCare ICT, thus creating a forum of excellence on the 
use of evolutionary inspired methods to face medical and healthcare 
problems.

This increasing trend towards the use of Evolutionary Computation 
methods to face challenging medical and healthcare problems in the next 
years, not only will a Special Session on this topic be of immediate 
relevance, it will also provide a platform for encouraging 
implementations of evolutionary methods for solving problems in various 
medical and health care specialties.


TOPICS

Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to, 
applications of Evolutionary Algorithms to:

- Medical imaging: image analysis by detection, segmentation, 
registration, classification of pathological patterns on various imaging 
modalities including X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer 
tomography (CT), etc.;

- Medical signal and data processing (analysis of biosignals such as the 
electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocorticogram (ECoG), electrocardiogram 
(ECG), electrooculogram (EOG), electromyogram (EMG), respiration, and so 
on; automated systems for detection of abnormal biomedical signals, 
detection of relevant biomedical patterns, multi-scale signal 
processing, ...)

- Clinical diagnosis and therapy: detection of relevant diagnostic 
parameters, regression models in diagnosing diseases, earlier diagnosis 
of disease, treatment schedule, management of chronic diseases, therapy 
planning, ...)

- Data inference, mining, and trend analysis (inference and modelling of 
physiological systems, data mining to discover new information, disease 
prediction, processing of large volumes of heterogeneous medical data, 
mining models of the patient, prediction of how diseases propagate ...)

- Modelling and simulation of medical processes (modelling of medical 
processes to avoid mistakes or to systematically improve decision making 
and practice, error, vulnerability, and inefficiencies detection, 
simulation of multi-agent concurrent activities, ...)

- Knowledge discovery and decision support (clinical decision support 
systems, automatic clinical diagnosis, ...)

- Computational Intelligence for chronic disease management (disease 
measure estimates, identification of symptoms, adaptation of medical 
devices to individual patients, ...)

- Healthcare modeling and simulation (physicians/patient support 
systems, population modelling systems, ...)

- Health information systems and convergence of health (healthcare 
delivery healthcare management, ...).

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of CEC, published by IEEE 
Press Society.
All the papers have to be submited electronically through the congress  
application site.

More detailed information, together with a more comprehensive list of 
application domains, is available at www.mhaec.icar.cnr.it and 
www.cec2017.org.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 16, 2017

Notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017

Deadline for final submission: March 12, 2017

Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017


ORGANIZED BY

Ivanoe De Falco
ICAR-CNR, ITALY

Antonio Della Cioppa
University of Salerno, ITALY

Umberto Scafuri
ICAR-CNR, ITALY

Ernesto Tarantino
ICAR-CNR, ITALY